There’s an escalator at the Scotiabank Theatre, the venue where just about all of the TIFF press and industry screenings are held, that’s notorious for breaking down. It goes several stories up at a steep angle, like the long slope of a particularly extreme rollercoaster, and its habit of grinding to a halt (of…
Damien Chazelle’s First Man—the Neil Armstrong biopic that sees Ryan Gosling giving a pensive, internal take on the man history books have since immortalized as Ol’ One Giant Leap-o—had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week, drawing strong praise for Chazelle’s direction, and the lead performances…
Seeing performers break on SNL can be fun, assuming it’s not just Jimmy Fallon ruining every sketch he’s in. It shows that, despite all the glitz and glamor, these professional comedians are still having fun. It’s also a reminder that the show is actually live. But if you thought SNL cast members broke a lot during…
Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where the film promos and teasers glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, destined to be lost in time, like tears in the rain. (Time to click.) Today, we’ve got Damien Chazelle trying to eke drama out of one of the most notable success stories in all of human history, some…
For all useful purposes, Gene Wilder was Willy Wonka; his twinkle-eyed portrayal of the Roald Dahl chocolatier was one of the finest performances of a career that didn’t lack for them, tapping into his natural showmanship, warmth, and unpredictability to create a character who seemed capable of pretty much anything at…
Ryan Gosling is a paragon of effortless cool, a man able to carry a film with his smoldering gaze alone. But what the above supercut highlights is that for every silent, piercing glance, Gosling’s got a hysterical, lung-shredding caterwaul to match it.
After 35 years of science-fiction movies only inspired by—or blatantly derivative of—Ridley Scott’s landmark dystopian noir, they finally made another Blade Runner: a nearly three-hour, big-budget art movie masquerading as a blockbuster, starring Ryan Gosling as a new era’s robot-hunting answer to Harrison Ford (who…
Harrison Ford is a slam-dunk late-night interview, his droll humor and stone-faced inability to give a shit leading to all-time great sit-downs with hosts who can keep up, like David Letterman. Watching him shit on Blade Runner 2049 co-star Ryan Gosling has been a blast, but at some point, the facade must crack,…
Perhaps sensing that there needed to be some good in this world, the news cycle continues to reach out for and surface any possible information about the moment when legendary Hollywood hardass Harrison Ford punched Ryan Gosling right in the face during the filming of Blade Runner 2049. We have, at this point, gone…
Ryan Gosling helped kick off the 43rd season of Saturday Night Live with a sketch about a man who was haunted by some of the design choices for Avatar. No, not the “nipples on a non-placental mammals” thing, but the decision to use a no-frills font like Papyrus for the logo. There’s nothing really wrong with Papyrus,…
While Blade Runner 2049 has been shrouded in mystery, most of its details gleaned from a few prerelease short films and some dense, apocalyptic trailers, one chestnut from the set has become a sort of legend of its production, which is that of Harrison Ford punching Ryan Gosling in the face. There’s something…
A lot of people are very particular about fonts, flying into a blind rage at the mere thought of Comic Sans or marveling at the simple pleasures of Helvetica, but host Ryan Gosling gave a voice to font fans everywhere with a pre-taped sketch on last night’s Saturday Night Live. Gosling played a man named Steven who…
“I just jazzed really good with the guys.”
Blade Runner 2049 begins on a farm in broad daylight. It’s what you would call a dramatic change of scenery. Before now—which is to say, for the decades it took Hollywood to get this long-awaited sequel off the ground—Blade Runner was basically synonymous with nighttime and the city. Though set in a sleek, bleak…
Before we heard about Jared Leto blinding himself to keep it real, the most fraught report out of the Blade Runner 2049 production involved Ryan Gosling getting decked by once-and-future Deckard, Harrison Ford. Apparently, Ford struck Gosling by accident but only after successfully simulating many other blows, so the…
The original Blade Runner delivered a neon-lit dystopia that changed sci-fi movies forever. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 has a lot to live up to in that respect (and more), but a clip from the sequel teases a dark new storyline—involving child labor—and landscape. Ryan Gosling’s Officer K leaves the…
It’s looking like next month’s SNL premiere is going to be all Blade Runner 2049s and rapping 4:44s, with news coming that Ryan Gosling and JAY-Z have been lined up for the September 30 debut. Michael Che reportedly broke the news during tonight’s Weekend Update taping, revealing that the La La Land actor and …
The original Blade Runner had a few memorable moments of violence, some of which were truly horrific, and while we don’t know if sequel Blade Runner 2049 will have any extended scenes of eyeball gouging, we do know that the Motion Picture Association Of America has deemed it violent enough for an R-rating. That comes…
Now that the first Blade Runner 2049 trailer has (mostly) set minds at ease about this follow-up to the 1982 sci-fi classic, Warner Bros. has released a new preview that delves further into the first meeting between Deckard (Harrison Ford) and LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling). The aging replicant tells the increasingly…
Remaining calm under pressure is a job requirement for any film director—particularly one at the helm of a highly anticipated blockbuster with a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars—but Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve is a regular Zen master. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Villeneuve spouts…
